Johan Frederik Cornelis Scherrewitz artwork • painting • previously for sale Gathering clams on the beach of Katwijk
Johan Frederik Cornelis Scherrewitz
Amsterdam 1868-1951 Hilversum
1868-1951
Gathering clams on the beach of Katwijk
oil on panel 27.6 x 25.2 cm, signed l.r.
This painting was previously for sale.
Johan Scherrewitz is associated with the late flowering of the Hague School. He was born in Amsterdam in 1868 and was a pupil of the landscape painter Geo Poggenbeek. He moved to the Dutch Gooi region in 1898. Scherrewitz loved painting open woodland views, a subject he alternated with beach scenes in Katwijk. His paintings are populated by cows, sheep, horses, fishermen and their boats and shellfish harvesters with their horses and carriages. Scherrewitz was virtually an overnight success in England, Scotland and the United States.